NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M
VS
AMD Radeon HD 7670M
NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M
VS
AMD Radeon HD 7670M

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M and AMD Radeon HD 7670M. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

905
Place in performance rating
853
no data
Value for money (0-100)
0.78
Fermi
Architecture
Terascale 2
GF108
Code name
Thames
Laptop
Type
Laptop
3 September 2010 (11 years ago)
Release date
7 June 2011 (10 years ago)
no data
Launch price (MSRP)
$629.99
$310
Price now
$338 (0.5x MSRP)
0.03
Value for money
0.05
N11P-GE
GPU code name
Thames XT
Laptop
Market segment
Laptop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M and AMD Radeon HD 7670M based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

96
Pipelines
480
500 MHz
Core clock speed
600 MHz
585 million
Transistor count
716 million
40 nm
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
23 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
20 Watt
6.0 billion/sec
Texture fill rate
14.40
192 gflops
Floating-point performance
576.0 gflops
96
CUDA cores
no data
96
Pipelines / CUDA cores
480
585 million
Number of transistors
716 million
23 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
20 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M and AMD Radeon HD 7670M.

PCIe 2.0 x16
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
medium sized
Laptop size
medium sized

Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M and AMD Radeon HD 7670M can be seen in this section.

(G)DDR3
Memory type
DDR3, (GDDR5)
1 GB
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
128 Bit
Memory bus width
128 Bit
800 MHz
Memory clock speed
1800 MHz
25.6 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
28.8 GB/s
-
Shared memory
-

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M and AMD Radeon HD 7670M, the size and number of monitors.

No outputs
Display Connectors
No outputs

Technologies

The difference between NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M and AMD Radeon HD 7670M is the additional functionality.

+
CUDA
no data

API support

The difference in supported APIs is NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M and AMD Radeon HD 7670M. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

12 API
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
4.5
OpenGL
4.4
1.1
OpenCL
no data

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M and AMD Radeon HD 7670M graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M or AMD Radeon HD 7670M good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M
AMD Radeon HD 7670M
Death Stranding (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M
AMD Radeon HD 7670M
F1 2020 (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M
AMD Radeon HD 7670M
Gears Tactics (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M
AMD Radeon HD 7670M
Doom Eternal (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M
AMD Radeon HD 7670M
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M

Cheaper ($310 vs $338 (0.5x MSRP))

Advantages of AMD Radeon HD 7670M

More pipelines (480 vs 96)

Less power consumption (20 Watt vs 23 Watt)

More maximum RAM amount (2 GB vs 1 GB)

More memory bandwidth (28.8 GB/s vs 25.6 GB/s)

So, NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M or AMD Radeon HD 7670M?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M .

NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M versus AMD Radeon HD 7670M performance benchmarks comparison

User rating

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